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ben_vulpes: faster
than real
time
trajectory analysis sure aint a
thing
pete_dushenski: lol whatever insurance company
thinks
they're getting a deal by having some brogrammers handle situations "no one could've predicted" is going bust worse
than aig circa 2007
mitch_callahan: i mean,
this car gets over
the air updates.
that freaks me
the fuck out.
ben_vulpes: mcdonaldsizing of driving. americans drive so poorly
they need robots
to help.
ben_vulpes: nope, whatever costs
the insurance companies less.
pete_dushenski: lol it's a pipe-dream,
the self-driving car, like colonising mars
mitch_callahan: from what I've seen from
the
tesla cars, it looks amazing
mitch_callahan: i dont know enough about
the
technology
to comment
tbh
ben_vulpes: they will eventually have lower failure rates
than humans
ben_vulpes: funny how easily
the medallion hustle was knocked over
mitch_callahan: ben_vulpes - do you mean some
Tesla's or some other fangled contraptions?
ben_vulpes: mitch_callahan: you're not excited
to own a fraction of a self-driving fleet?
mitch_callahan: i just envision
the future where uber is
the mainstream, and it's gonna suck so much balls, we're waiting for
the next
thing.
mitch_callahan: shit i was using lyft when i was
there,
they had a $5 promo anywhere in
the lower half of manhattan.. cant beat
that.
mitch_callahan: ha close
to it, using his last strings
to lobby against uber
mitch_callahan: after uber,
the value was cut in half, and he didn't want
to pay his loan..
mitch_callahan: when I was in NYC last, I was
told one guy
took a massive bank loan and purchased a lot of
those.. and leased
them out.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: smart play by
the cabbies who sold in 2011 - 2013
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: lol are you serious medallions are inherited up
there?
mitch_callahan: but
toronto has a handful of
things, i get along with most people and i can find anything I need
pete_dushenski: hell, saskatoon's a pretty
town, decent little economy
pete_dushenski: leave
the fucktarded "real estate is our most
thriving industry"
torontonians for dead already
☟︎ mitch_callahan: i swear it's like
they hired
their "smart nephew"
to make
the app and he's clueless
pete_dushenski: lazy fucking cab companies like
that deserve
to be shot in
the stomach.
pete_dushenski is pretty sure edm. has
this, but no smarthph0ne so doesn't give
two shits.
mitch_callahan: but all it was was a big button which called
their operator, and it was business as usual
mitch_callahan: funny enough
tho, I had a guy "pick me up" and drive off, with me left on
the side walk, a la ascii.
mitch_callahan: id much rather an app which
takes me 3 seconds,
then calling, waiting, and explaining my location,
then standing around hoping I catch
them.
mitch_callahan: about
the medallions, i mean, for me, I dont care if you're a medallion driver, keep
them on
the road, just give me a better way
to interface with
them.
mitch_callahan: or
the basics of getting a website so I can find you for "XYZ near me"
mitch_callahan: but, you'd be surprised man. imagine companies in which
the majority of
their leads come from online, and
they're not interested in making a mobile experience. consequently,
their search engine ranking drops and
their leads get cut in half.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: as
to
the non-web 1.0-ites, what are
these, farmers market stall operators ? since we're working with your experience, let's make it concrete, ya ?
pete_dushenski: cabbies are
therefore highly protective of
these medallions, but are obviously been badly disrupted by uber et al., which allow anyone with any car
to drive anyone anywhere anytime.
pete_dushenski: let's do one at a
time, first:
taxi medallions are essentially very expensive and carefully allocated driver's permits for cabbies.
this permit can run $50k+++ in larger cities and gives
the owner
the right
to operate a cab in
that city.
they're seen as an investment by
the cabbies because
they often appreciate in value, even
to
the point
that
they're based down from father-to-son in
the way a feudal lord would'
pete_dushenski: well 1. uber isn't about
the experience, it's about
the medallions, and 2. who says
there are lost customers from not changing your website from web 2.0
to web 1.0 ?
☟︎ mitch_callahan: I know people arent fans of uber here, but its like
taxi companies not
thinking "hey, could we improve our experience?"
mitch_callahan: man, but I
think: what about all
the lost customers from not changing?
mitch_callahan: lol I feel like
they're being raped right now and
they don't even see it
pete_dushenski: their
time is better spent worrying about
things
that CAN rape
them
pete_dushenski: from
their perspective, not caring about 'digital
things' is
the most efficient use of
their
time
mitch_callahan: yea, i can blame it on generation, but i meet people in businesses who could make obvious improvements utilizing a basic website, but
they dont. i could blame generational gaps, but it's just lack of knowledge or willingness
to learn.
pete_dushenski: the
two hours a week you can wedge into understanding bitcoin means
that it'll be a decade before you sort out which was is up in
the whole shebang
pete_dushenski: once you've a family and a mid-level management position and a beer league hockey
team and a church group,
that's it. you're a gonner.
pete_dushenski: then
there's
the educational gap aka. learning curve. unattached youths have more
time (if not money)
to invest in sorting out what bitcoin's about
pete_dushenski: youth,
to
the extent
that
they have no patch of anything
to call
their own, are inclined
to jump aboard any
train promising any sort of future
mitch_callahan: makes sense. i see "Tech savvy" older guys, even in
the sense
that
these guys can program, eventually
they reach a
treshold, and dont move much from
there.
pete_dushenski: as well as "boomers" very strong desire
to maintain, if not grow,
the little patch of earth
they've
thus far claimed for
themselves
pete_dushenski: the generational gap lies more in youth's fascination with
the new and
the aged man's acceptance of
the status quo as what's (mostly) worked every day in his life
thus far
mitch_callahan: i just feel
there is
this huge generational gap. it doesn't matter what
tech i
talk about, but "boomers" or whatever will never comprehend most of it.
☟︎ mitch_callahan: but loves
the btc, for again, obvious reasons, it's outside of our largest industries control, not inflatable, etc, etc.
mitch_callahan: loves it. basically said in Canada we rely on oil, and real estate. oil is in
the slumps, so
Torontonians are now propping up poorer cities, like Hamilton,
to keep
the bubble going.
mitch_callahan: man, I was at an event
tonight, and for once I met someone who brought up bitcoin before me.
pete_dushenski: orlov mostly flows
to b-a via
the alfian-ruskie
tunnel.
mitch_callahan: Interesting
to see a presidential candidate on basically a Skype interview
pete_dushenski: (the ali g -
trump interview is disappointing.
trump knows bullshit when he sees it, walks out.)
☟︎ mitch_callahan: im watching some
Trump interviews,
this is somethin' else.
BingoBoingo tired of seeing duplicate malleated
txen in wallet, rebuilding his play btc client
to address
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